Moonshot AI formally launches Kimi Hosted Agents, a managed cloud runtime for enterprise agents

On November 5, 2026, Moonshot AI formally launched Kimi Hosted Agents on its Kimi API Open Platform, following a beta that began in September 2026 for enterprise-verified users. The service sells the agent 'harness' — session history, tool execution, sandboxes, and failure recovery — as a managed cloud product that runs around the clock for long-running or asynchronous work and multi-agent collaboration, so teams configure agents instead of building and maintaining the runtime themselves.

The platform stores complete session history as events, runs built-in tools in isolated cloud sandboxes with network-access controls, and handles retries, scheduling, and automatic resumption after a platform failure. It ships more than 140 skills and more than 30 plugins covering web retrieval, professional data queries, office documents, and content generation, plus 12 official templates — eight for finance, alongside game development, SRE incident response, and community operations — and supports custom skills, plugins, MCP services, and tools.

Kimi Inference Hook lets an enterprise's own security service inspect task inputs and tool returns before each model inference and allow or block content under the company's own rules. A self-hosted environment option runs sandbox tools on the customer's own machines while Moonshot keeps orchestration and session management. Both the hook and self-hosting are limited to enterprise-verified users.